Best Elizabeth Kostova Quotes
- ...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find? Always Wonder
- The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. All
- He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away… Another Section
- It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. Inspirational
- I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion… Companion
- I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an… Been
- I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with… Anything Away
- Faith is simply whatever is real to us. Faith
- It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity,… Circumstances
- And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? Anyone
- There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence. All
- In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I… Act
- ..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you... Allow
- It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way… Added
- He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them. Alone
- Recently abandoned women can be complicated. Abandoned
- In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp… Called
- It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old… All
- ...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. Agony
- I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. All
- My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood. Flash
- I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich… Angst
- As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. Deeds
- These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. Atheist
- For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face. Been